Senator Iroegbu in Abuja
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Sonnie Ekwowusi has called for the immediate resignation of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon following the diplomatic row trailing the newly-released UN gay stamps.
Ekwowusi who is also a member of THISDAY Editorial Board, in a statement on Thursday, urged the UN chief to tender unqualified apology to the UN member States for unilaterally deciding to release the gay stamps without clearance from the member-nations.
He stated that the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), had on February 5, 2016, officially released four homosexual and transgender postal stamps for public use ostensibly aimed at promoting gay and transgender rights in the world.
"One of the postal stamps depicts a homosexual couple carrying a child. Another is a putrid display of two naked lesbians frontally holding each other, caressing and kissing. Another postal stamp shows two homosexuals embracing and kissing, while the fourth stamp shows a butterfly that symbolizes transgenderism," he said.,
According to Ekwowusi, international law binds upon consensus, and not on unilateral decision of the minority.
He said: "If nations have not come together and agreed that homosexuality and transgenderism should become a binding international law, why should Ban Ki-Moon and a few others go from behind and impose homosexuality and transgenderism on the rest of mankind? "
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